Hard Drive for Mac Pro

I am looking for suggestions for another internal Hard Drive. I currently have 250GB and it is reaching its capacity.
I would like to have another 320-500GB drive. No raid configuration, just another hard drive mounted on my desktop to store my VHS and 8mm tape to DVD files.
What drive would you purchase WD, Maxtor etc.
I have read the forums and come to the conclusion that Seagate is not the way to go. Thanks

If you are definitely going to have a non-RAID setup then I would look at (in no particular preferrential order)…
- Western Digital Caviar SE16 (low power usage, cool and quiet)
- Maxtor MaXLine III/Pro (fast, quiet and useable in RAID environments as well)
- Samsung SpinPoint (the king of quiet although can be a little slower than other drives)

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External hard drives for mac pro, external hard drives for mac pro

my laptop always says there is not enough space and I notice my hard drive it out of room, what would be a best external hard drive that will support the Mac Book Pro?

huge storage, low cost, high quality, very small and portable.
BEST FOR THE COST, Toshiba "tiny giant" 15mm thick 2TB drive (have several of them, lots of storage in tiny package)    $100
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Connect-Portable-HDTC720XK3C1/dp/B00CGUMS48    /ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1390020791&sr=8-3&keywords=toshiba+2tb
best options for the price, and high quality HD:
Quality 1TB drives are $50 per TB on 3.5" or $65 per TB on 2.5"
Perfect 1TB for $68
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-Hard-Drive/dp/B005J7YA3W/ref=sr_1_ 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379452568&sr=8-1&keywords=1tb+toshiba
Nice 500gig for $50. ultraslim perfect for use with a notebook
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B009F1CXI2/ref=s    r_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1377642728&sr=1-1&keywords=toshiba+slim+500gb
*This one is the BEST portable external HD available that money can buy:
HGST Touro Mobile 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive $88
http://www.amazon.com/HGST-Mobile-Portable-External-0S03559/dp/B009GE6JI8/ref=sr    _1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383238934&sr=8-1&keywords=HGST+Touro+Mobile+Pro+1TB+USB+3.0+7 2 00+RPM
Most storage experts agree on the Hitachi 2.5"
Hitachi is the winner in hard drive reliability survey:
Hitachi manufacturers the safest and most reliable hard drives, according to the Storelab study. Of the hundreds of Hitachi hard drives received, not a single one had failed due to manufacturing or design errors. Adding the highest average lifespans and the best relationship between failures and market share, Hitachi can be regarded as the winner.

Hard Drive for Mac Pro Questions

Hi, I have 2, 600GB hard drives (Approximately) in my Mac Pro. 1 is for Windows Vista, the other is for Leopard. I'm running low on storage space on the Mac Side. I customized my Mac Pro when I bought it off the Apple Site.
I would like to add another hard drive to my Mac so I have more storage space, 600 GB would be a good size. Would this Hard Drive work? http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB983ZM/A.
I've never installed a hard drive in a computer before. Is it safe to do? is it difficult? My only fear is somehow messing up my mac.
I would like the new hard drive to only be used on my Mac Side running Leopard (not Windows Vista). how would I do this?
Any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Thanks guys. I have a couple more questions, I'll be purchasing a 1TB Hard Drive. Why are the hard drives much more expensive from the Apple Store than from Amazon? Is it safer to pay more money and buy the hard drive from the Apple Store than from Amazon?
After I install the Hard Drive will I see a New Hard Drive Icon on my Desktop?
How do I tell the computer that the new Hard drive will be used only on the mac side and not the Windows side?
When I go into Disk Utility to format how will I know which is the new hard drive? I don't want to accidentally format my current hard drive will all my data on it.
How will I store data on the new hard drive?
Any info is greatly appreciated.

Can anyone suggest best 500 GB external hard drive for MAC PRO?

Genius Bar rep told me to back up hard drive before delving into whirring tower... Any suggestions for a 500 GB automatic external hard drive? I've researched several, but they all seem to have drawbacks. Reliability and a quiet fan are priorities. Thanks.

Thanks so much for sharing that. Just talked to Apple support .... MAC PRO apparently has 4 slots for drives, and they would be covered under the Apple Protection Plan. With Leopard, they could be set to back up automatically. Thx again!

Can anyone suggest the best external hard drive for MAC PRO?

As my tower is whirring like the proverbial jet, I was told at the Genius Bar to back everything up before trouble-shooting. I've researched various 500 GB ext. hard drives, but they all seem to have drawbacks. My biggest priority is reliability. Any ideas? Thanks.

You will find suitable products at MacSales.com or you can purchase a hard drive separately and install it in an external Firewire enclosure. You will find enclosures at:
MacSales.com
CoolDrives.com
FirewireDirect.com
NewEgg.com
In the future please choose the proper forum for your topic. You posted this question in the MacBook Pro forum instead of the Mac Pro forum.

Does the cache matter when choosing hard drive for mac pro?

Hi,
I have been looking at all the specs to see about adding another hard drive to my mac pro. It is the 1st generation 2006 duel. I am getting a bit confused about the specs required! I don't understand cache? I think that mine is 8 cache, but a lot of the drives I am looking at are 16 or more. Is this important, have I got to stick to 8? Also does it matter about which Sata? i.e. 1, 11 or 111? and what does 'low profile' mean? Fitting it seems really easy, but buying the wrong drive seems easy as well!
Thanks for any help,
Adrian.

Desktop drives are nominal 3.5" form factors, about one inch tall. They use a 12 Volt motor to spin the heavy platters around fairly fast.
Notebook rotating drives are mostly 2.5" form factor, now mostly around 9.5mm tall, possibly less. They have only 5 Volts available to spin the motor.
SATA 1, 2, 3 -- 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0 is all specsmanship -- rotating drives cannot source data off the spinning platters faster than a burst of about 150 Mbytes/sec (1.2 Mbits/sec). So that part does not matter except that the 1.5 drives will be older models. Do note pay extra for better SATA speeds.
Rotation speed is very important, because that determines how fast the bits can fly past the read head. 5400 RPM is slower than 7200 RPM. A few 10,000 RPM drives are available, but they are too pricey for most users. I use 10,000 RPM drives in my Server. For Desktop computers, DO pay extra for 7200 over 5400. For notebook computers, a few 7200 RPM drives are available, but they sometimes run HOT.
Green drives, on the other hand, take great liberties with spin rates and sleeping, and are not suitable for production (great for Backups, but then they are not candidates for spares for your main drives). For these reasons, I do not own any Green Drives.
Large-enough cache size means the drive can read an entire track in one revolution, so that if you next ask for blocks near the original block you will not wait the average 4.166 milliseconds for the platter to spin halfway around to pick up new data (it is waiting, pre-fetched in the cache). So do not pay extra above about 8Mbytes, but use larger cache size as a tie breaker between equivalent models.

What is the prefered hard drive for Mac Pro 1.1?

Hello everyone, I want to fill the 4th Mac Pro Raid hard drive. I want to know the best hard drive out there and the maximum capacity I should buy. The computer came with 3 hard drives 750.16 each. Thank you for help!
Mac OS X/10.6.8/2x3 GHz dual-core Intel Xeon/13 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

4TB if you want max size. There is no max and it all depends on what you do.
Not sure but "pro raid" better not be Apple RAID controller as that does have limits and problems and not sure you use and need RAID5 controller.
I'd say WD 10K 1TB VelociRaptor as "best in class" outside of SAS
WD Black 2TB for cost size performance or 4TB new $300 for max
WD Black line has been used by users and Apple for OEM and 1TB model
When doing RAID or RAID5 I would use the old drives for backup and replace all four.
And keep the boost drive on SSD ($100 Samsung 840, or 10K WD VR 250GB) or 500GB WD VR $139, great little and fast. Samsung 840 240GB is also gotten affordable-ish. Nice larger boot drive.
I went with 8x2GB for $130 now from Amazon for FBDIMMs.
And ATI 5770.

New external hard drive for Mac Pro & FCE

I wasn't sure where to post this question, but as most of my Mac work is using FCE I thought this would be the best place to ask.
My Western Digital 1TB Studio External Drive keeps going into sleep mode and I'm concerned it may go to sleep soon and not come back to life again. I'm looking for a similar hard drive with Firewire 800 on it.
Apple store recommended Lacie D2 hard drive which I have previously heard bad reviews about their reliability and customer service. I have over the years on my PC used Maxtor or Western Digital, however this is my second WD Studio drive in last 6 months that has gone into deep sleep mode.
Any recommendations of a good, reliable with decent manufacturer support if needed?
Thanks in advance.
Matt

Stay away from general purpose backup drives. They are not designed to deal with the demands of video.
If you want a dedicated A/V enclosure that comes supplied high performance drives, Caldigit is seriously recommended. If you are looking for bare firewire enclosures where you can add quality drives, Granite Digital and OWC are good sources. The WD Caviar Black drives as well as the Seagate series Martin recommended are good choices to fill the enclosure.
fwiw - LaCie makes a LOT of drives and a certain percentage are bound to fail fairly quickly. Still, the main problem with them is you have no idea what physical drive mechanism is inside. Some are ok, some are junk.
x

Extra hard drive for mac pro 2009

I have bought an extra 2.5 inch solid state drive for my mac pro (2009). I have tried it in all 3 spare slots and its not being seen at all. Where am I going wrong?

oliverswan wrote:
Studio K, can you point me in the direction of instructions for your suggestion?
Go to this link and you sill see a picture showing the SSD in the lower DVD drive bay.
Just scroll halfway down and you'll see......
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-InstallingSSD.html
To access the DVD drive bays, open the Mac Pro case and simply pull the drive bay assembly out by the handle. Don't pull all the way out, because the drive is connected to a cable.
Icy Dock is problematic for some people. OWC MountPro is a nice drive sled solution.

What is the best external hard drive for Mac Pro for photography

Hi,
Can anyone recommend a relatively inexpensive portable external hard drive that can transfer large photos between my laptop and the external drive?
I'm thinking something that has Firewire, around 500gb or more and is lightweight.
An absolute must is Dependable. Something that doesn't* break or disconnect on me continually after 6 months.
Any help would be much appreciated!!!
Thank you guys and gals!
Mari

I ALWAYS build my own drive (takes 5 mins). More storage and less money.
Use FireWire not USB.
USB is packet oriented and data transfer is managed by the CPU, Firewire is a streaming protocol and data transfer is managed by the CPU only to initiate transfer, after that, Firewire handles the rest dropping CPU load to nearly 0%.
Put the drive below, in the enclosure at the bottom. Note how the enclosure has a cooling fan, and that the drive is mounted on vibration mounts. I know of no other hard drive enclosure with those features.
A hard drive has three enemies 1) Heat, 2) Vibration, 3) A Windows 7 installation.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Intellipower-Desktop-WD20EADS/dp/B001RB1TI S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1258862242&sr=8-1
http://www.cooldrives.com/ox93saiihadr.html

Best External Hard Drive for Mac Pro

I have been searching the forums and can't seem to get a good answer for a fast, quality external to store video files with. 500gb Time Capsule is the same price as a 1tb raid Western Digital Mybook? Any suggestions?

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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/SATA2EN2/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/SATA5PM/
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/rocketraid
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/TSATAIIE4P/
The ONLY way I have managed to create NTFS partitions was:
Convert FAT to NTFS in Vista;
Delete FAT and create in Vista (essential to install Vista)
Format a drive as MBR in Disk Utility and use MacFuse + 3g

WD "My Passport hard drive for Mac."

Hi -
New convert from Windows to MacBook Pro so I apologize if this seems like a dumb question BUT......
Just purchased a WD "My Passport hard drive for Mac." It says on the box that it is formatted HFS+, Journaled for Lion & Mountain Lion as well as compatible with Apple Time Machine. My assumption is that based on this there is no need for me to format this for my Mac since this hard drive was already formatted specifically for a Mac. However, since some of the other information I've seen online refers to always formatting your hard drive before use, I wanted to double check since I am just getting started with my

As you are going to use Time Machine, it will ask you to format the external disk if there are files inside it when you set Time Machine up. Open System Preferences > Time Machine > Select Disk, choose the external disk and the backup will start.
Also, you can create a second partition on the external disk to make clones with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to have the advantages of Time Machine and the clone

Need help reformatting my hard drive for mac only

Help please
Need help reformatting my hard drive for mac only with my toshishba hard drive

What Mac is this please, with what version of OS X?

How to Format Toshiba Hard-Drive for Mac with Parallels?

Hello,
I recently bought a Toshiba Hard-Drive with the following features:
500GB
It is a Canivo Basics 3.0
It is USB 3.0 and 2.0 portable hard drive
It has already been formatted NTFS for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8
The box says that it can be reformatted for Mac
I have a Macbook Pro with Retina Display that I bought this year in late March/early April.
It runs OS X Mavericks, and Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac.
I would like to reformat it so that I can use it on my laptop both with Windows and Mac OS at the same time. I do not wish to use a partition as I want to access the hard drive through Mac and Windows at the same time on my laptop and I also want to be able to access the Mac things on a Windows computer and vice versa.
I have never formatted a hard drive before, and I would like to use a completely safe software, or no software at all, if it is possible.
I am sorry but I don't have a very high knowledge of this.
Thanks,
Sandy-Wood

It would be easier, using Parallels, just to format the drive for "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". You can see it both in the Windows/Parallels and the Mac side. Leaving it formatted as NTFS is not going to allow you to access (write to) the drive unless you use third-party software. Formatting it for Mac lets you use it, as I said, on both the Parallels VM and the Mac side.
If you were using Boot Camp, I would advise leaving it formatted as NTFS and purchasing NTFS for Mac to access the drive on both OS's. You can mitigate that by formatting the drive for Mac:
Good luck,
Clinton

Creating A New Boot Drive For Mac Pro Desktop

I have a Mac Pro 1,1 using Lion:
I would like to create a new and bigger boot drive but having not done this before I would appreciate any direction that would make this as painless as possible. I will continue to use Lion but am a little lost when it comes to doing this with the download process of Lion as well as transferring what has been created on the current HD in the MacPro. I have a new WD Black 2 TB SATA that I would like to use as the new boot drive. Again, thank you for the help.

Don't. Use. 2TB for system. Seriously.
Use that for data.
Get yourself a $89 Samsung 840 120GB instead along with Icy Dock $15. You will. Love it.
You don't need a large drive for the system. All you need to do is MOVE all the data and media files and every thing else, just leave the small 4GB /Users/myuseraccount/Library on the boot drive with the OS and apps. Everything else gets off loaded.
Leave your drive you ahve now as is for backup. Move data and clone the system.
Clone your system:
How to Clone a Volume
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
See also Erasing a Drive, How and Why to Partition a Drive, RAID.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-partition-your-hard-drive-on-mac-os -x-snow-.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/DU.html
How to relocate system and user data to another drive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4337http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/To successfully relocate your operating system, user accounts and data from one storage device to another, meet the following conditions:
The destination storage device (SSD drive or hard drive) you are migrating to should be physically located in the same computer. Moving operating system files from one computer to another computer using software not specifically designed for that computer can cause issues due to software, hardware, and firmware version mismatches.
Always back up your storage device with Time Machine or Disk Utility before you start.
Icy Dock $15
http://www.amazon.com/2-5-3-5-Ssd-sata-Convert/dp/B002Z2QDNE/
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 128GB
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7TE120BW/dp/B00E3 W15P0/
2x2GB FBDIMM DDR2 667MHz @ $25
http://www.amazon.com/BUFFERED-PC2-5300-FB-DIMM-APPLE-Memory/dp/B002ORUUAC/

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